Category Archives: Cards from the Captive Children

In response to a cruel writer’s “deduction” that children’s spelling errors in their cards to their parents were proof of their forgery, a woman responds…

As a mother I come with tears from the bottom of my heart. How terrible is the imagination that it could be one of my daughters or sons who wrote this, one of my children they could have ripped from me, according to their opinion, I made a “mistake” (an error).

For this satanically guided writer I just want to say that we should pray for him, that our Father would show him mercy!

This writer has no idea what is really important: to write right or to live right! And to instruct those who are entrusted to you in the right way of the Creator!

School and Education: If I would like that my children would not have to submit to state or independent (free) schools to their respective ideologies, I would have to leave the country of school obligation (der Schulpflicht).

Here the state control goes too far that parents also who don’t live in one [of Germany’s] many religious communities, on reasons of their faith decide that children should learn at home, and be taught by their parents—this is a dilemma already for years. How many families move abroad and accept inexpressible problems for doing so?

It is a Shame that children who want to go back to their parents are not allowed to! May our Father give them protection and not let their little hearts harden!

May you parents give up the bitter struggle and go and find peace in another country. Let us be full of confidence that our liberation comes and that justice will be established.

L. Erhard

October 18, 2015

Some of the children’s Cards

Dear Abba and Imma,

The visit with you yesterday was beautiful at last we saw each other. Hopefully, we will come home soon. I miss you so badly. We must not cease to pray. Every day we come nearer to our target day. I love you soooo much! What are you doing now? I look forward to our next visit!!

Your daughter,

Chaninah Leviyah

Dear Imma (Hebrew for mother),

I drew this picture for you.

The sheep are the community, because we have to stay together.

We must never give up.

I dreamed that we are coming home next week. Hopefully it is true.

I miss you sooo much.

I am going to the eye-nose-throat doctor. I might have to have my tonsils taken out. They are really swollen.

If I have to get them out, maybe you can come visit me more often.

I love you very, very much

(Literally: I love you so much it hurts.)

Your Chaninah

Dear Abba (Hebrew for father),

This drawing is for you.

You are like the tree that nourishes us; you feed us when we are hungry and we can hold onto you when we are shaky (have nothing to hold onto).

I miss you sooo much. And love you more than anything.

I had a dream. Imma can tell you all about it.

Love you, your Chaninah

The visit with you yesterday was beautiful at last we saw each other. Hopefully, we will come home soon. I miss you so badly. We must not cease to pray. Every day we come nearer to our target day. I love you soooo much! What are you doing now? I look forward to our next visit!!

Your daughter,

Chaninah Leviyah

Dear Imma (Hebrew for mother),

I drew this picture for you.

The sheep are the community, because we have to stay together.

We must never give up.

I dreamed that we are coming home next week. Hopefully it is true.

I miss you sooo much.

I am going to the eye-nose-throat doctor. I might have to have my tonsils taken out. They are really swollen.

If I have to get them out, maybe you can come visit me more often.

I love you very, very much

(Literally: I love you so much it hurts.)

Your Chaninah

Dear Abba (Hebrew for father),

This drawing is for you.

You are like the tree that nourishes us; you feed us when we are hungry and we can hold onto you when we are shaky (have nothing to hold onto).

Translation

Dear Abba and Dear Ima,

How are you doing! I am doing ok. Thank you for the letters. Thank you very much for the package and all that was in it. The scarf, the tea (we drank it right away), the honey waffles, the wool and the card. We are the two sheep! I was very happy. Many greetings to Ishah Chadasha, I think she also helped with it.

I am so happy that we can see each other again in a few days. I can hardly wait. I hope our Father will soon bring us home again. Now we still have to wait a little while. We have to hold on to the hope, even though it is not easy!

Many greetings to everybody!!! I miss you all very, very much! I love you and appreciate you!!

Your daughter, Chaninah

Note

Abba and Ima (or Imma) are how our children refer to their father (abba or source) and their mother (imma or foundation).

More on the remarkable saga of the Schott family

“Rekah said that in the beginning when the children were taken, there was a time when she almost lost hope. But there was Abiyah (her husband) – he was like our Master – he helped me just to receive whatever it was – and just take the next step and not lose hope. And Abiyah always brought me back to that –- to have them on the altar and be faithful and let our Father do what He has to do. And the letters that the girls wrote were so much encouragement to do that too.

“She recalled how Ishah, the youngest one, just 8 years old when she was taken, had sent a little card with a picture of a weasel coming out of a tunnel in the ground that looked almost as if it was smiling. Ishah wrote that she chose this card because the little animal had made it through the tunnel and made it out. She didn’t know it would be two years, but they made it through.”

Translation

Dear Ima and Abba,

How are you doing? I am doing well. I and Besorah share one bedroom. I have different subjects in school. English is the most enjoyable one. At school, we are also learning how to ride bicycle. I received a safety helmet. I also have a new friend called Emma. I hope to see you all soon and give you a big kiss!!! I chose this card because the weasel (meerkat) made it through the tunnel and is happy now. We will also make it through the tunnel.

See you soon, Ishah

“They have a story of faith to tell their children; it’s theirs forever.”

(Quotes are from a letter describing the amazing return after such a long captivity.)

The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29

From our children in Argentina…

in honor of Shifchat-jah

Without me life is impossible

Because everyone needs company To be able to be in harmony And have a bond that is imperishable.

Wherever I go, I spread sweetness as a comb dripping honey Faithful I will always be You will not fear for I am steadfast.

If you want to be with me easy to reach you must be and love your enemy You must be friendly!

Can you tell who I am?... Friendship!

From Shifchat-jah, first posted January 14, 2014…

A life without love is lonely,

A life without hope is cruel,

A life without trust is empty,

but a life without good friends is no longer life.

Dear Nechonah,

How are you doing? I am doing o.k. I know it is not very easy for you right now, but endure. Our Father has a great plan for us.

Are you alone right now? Are you in a foster family or an orphanage?

I just want to let you know that I appreciate you for enduring. We were always good friends and we always liked each other. Now it is very different — through the use of the Jugendamt we don’t see each other anymore.

Isn’t it true, that a life without parents and good friends is no longer life? Often I think of the nice times we had together going swimming or milking goats together…

I wish we could just live together. We need to endure. I love you sooooooooooooooooo much! I miss you very, very much.

A very important and updated post

The truth about our children, who told you no

The following is an account from one of the families of the children ripped from their homes on September 5, 2013. These two girls have been held in Jugendamt temporary custody for over 20 months without any main hearing (which is against the law, against the Child Protection Act). The reports of officials who examined the children and filed reports to Judge R. Nordlingen District Court, and from the children themselves prove the well-being of these children.

The Court has ignored these compelling findings and continues, along with the high officials of the Donauwörth Jugendamt (youth services), to deliberately deceive the public deliberately that the Community in Klosterzimmern is bad, that the parents are bad, and that the teachings are bad. This creates at atmosphere of what sociologists of religion call “moral panic” — a deliberate effort by governments to cause the public to fear minority religions.

Yet the children evidence nothing but good in their persona lives and in their interactions with others,

except for the clear evidence of trauma from the separation from their parents.

This is religious persecution, if anyone cares to face the truth.

The question still arises: Can a bad tree bear good fruit?

The reports of all the other parents and children are similar and have been written and spoken to the District Court Nördlingen and many representatives of the youth office. In response these officials do nothing. In the meantime they violate the law by making every effort to turn our children away from their own faith, their parents, their culture, and their way of life. They are forcibly kept away from their parents, although they have repeatedly expressed the desire to be with them. (Destroying families by taking children away from parents is outlawed by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.1)

At no time prior to the taking into care, has the appropriate youth office personnel (Jugendamt) visited us or checked with our family to see if the accusations against us could possibly be true. In fact, there were no accusations against our family personally, which could be read in the files of the Jugendamt, which actually only started on September 1, 2013!

Very noteworthy, however, is the medical certificate of our family physician of Nördlingen, whom Besorah visited just after her release in December 2013. He speaks of a psychological state of emergency, psychogenic gastric pain and overstrain syndrome.3 This is something that would have been spared our then 14-year-old daughter if she had not experience the trauma of being taken into “care” by the state. Which party abused and injured my daughter? Was it not the State?

Letter from another doctor, dated September 30, 2014, which clarifies my children’s state:

“In the meantime, I have made contact with the physicians, pediatricians, dentists, orthodontists, and psychologists who are concretely and regularly attending the community. After detailed, technical discussions on the issues of punishment, maltreatment, personality damage, and the ability of the medical care we came to the unanimous conclusion that there is not even a hint of evidence in any of these areas suggesting damage in physical, psychological or educational terms.

We keep hereby explicitly state that we have children physically and psychologically only exceptionally well-developed — unlike in our professional practice. To the parents of the children we unanimously certify parental medical care which is far above the average.”

Enclosed also writing of the children by the Jugendamt psychotherapist from September 15, 2014 who came to the conclusion that our Community is quite capable to raise up happy people who are viable in our society. He talks about our young people and also about his impressions of Besorah (now 16) and viewed her and the others to be extremely confident and balanced.

Statement of the children’s lawyer onNovember 17, 2013:

About Ishah:

“It was her greatest desire to be allowed to return home, she misses their parents very much.”

About Chaninah:

…”Chaninahappearedat first glancetalkingquite cheerfullyandunburdened, but thenbrokepretty quicklyinto tearswhen we cameto speakto the fact thatshe liveseven nowcurrentlyseparated from their parents.

Chaninah fiercely sobbed and announced she would be back with her parents absolutely as soon as possible. She described herself as very desperate; they miss their parents very much, with whom they had previously and always been together. Besorah, who is 14 years old, and who otherwise looked very very mature and grown up, was in a similar emotional state…In any case she wants to live in the Community with her beloved parents. Her greatest desire to be as quickly as possible back with her parents.

Chaninah seemed to be from the forced taking into care by the state very insecure and helpless and anxious. All three girls spoke with a lot of longing and love about their parents. Ihave no doubtthat thechildren have grown upinanenvironment with a lot of security and care shown by their parents and by other members of the Community. For me there is no doubt that the children love their parents very much and that they suffer from the separation, very severely sometimes.”

The Jugendamt wants to convince me and tell me that I am doing better here in the home than at home. This is a lie! I can not live without my parents! It breaks something in my soul when I am separated from my parents.

This also goes against the law! Because in the law it says that children have the right to live with their parents. I want to go home again. I won’t give up, as long as I am not at home. The best place from my whole life was with my parents. I know this! I will hold on to this hope, that we will come home! I want to make it clear to you that I want to go home!

Many greetings and thank you very much,

Chaninah Schott

Honorable Stefan Rössle, at home, with his family.

The children’s lawyer wrote onSeptember 4, 2014:

“In this conversation she (Chaninah) stated her desire to return completely back to Klosterzimmern.

About Ishah: ‘It would be best for them but if they could return completely.’

Ishah wrote on April 26, 2015:

“WANT

TO

GO

HOME”

10 times in capital letters:

Learning status documents on the academic performance of our children can be found in parts of the school records of our private supplementary school in Klosterzimmern of 2005-2013, which was considered to be suitable to meet the school and compulsory vocational education in Bavaria. See the posts “Let the Record Speak” for exactly what these records say.

It is found generally positive assessments of the competent inspection authorities: The Jugendamt director, the school psychologist,the School Director and others report objectively about their good impression that they have won from our children.

Development Reports (October 8, 2014 to April 22, 2015) about our daughters Chaninah and Ishah from the children’s home, in which they are housed since the taking into care. Their reference teacher has verbally confirmed that the girls are “an asset to the group, because they are very social, while the children in the group very self-centered.” Please to note! They were taken into custody that way; they were not made that way in custody!

Chaninah’sReport of the Raid, written April 26, 2015: “Every day I hope that I’ll be home soon… And no one can replace my parents, they will always be the best parents in the world for me. I know that they love me and I have also loved !!”

Since the Raid, she wrote in the same report: “It feels like in a prison, never knowing when to get out and always being under observation. Every day I hope that I’ll be home soon.”

As you can plainly see, there never has been any evidence provided by the Jugendamt or the District Court to prove endangerment to the children (ages 13 and 10), who have been in temporary Jugendamt custody for over 20 months. The judge has not even set a date for the main hearing, even after being corrected severely by the Appeals Court in Munich.

But the evidence shows that these girls have been shining examples in school, at home, and in their attitudes. These are two of the children the Youth Welfare Office says were severely abused because they were spanked. So, how how could children who were allegedly beaten daily get such glowing reports from the officials? And why do they constantly tell everyone in the foster institution, the youth welfare office, and the court that they want to go home to their parents who love them with all their heart? And why are their cries continually ignored?

Do you want to know the truth?

Would the public and the press ask the right questions… to the right people… and not those who have something to hide.

It is genocide according to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2, genocide is to “d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;” and “e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group,” thereby, with regards to the Twelve Tribes in Germany, accomplishing “c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;” not to mention the second part of “b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.” ↩

The judge is not an expert witness to competently judge psychological harm, yet she has kept the children almost two years with no other basis to keep them! ↩

Why was there no uproar over such abuse? Could it be that no one in the media or government or social services actually cares about our children? ↩

From Chaninah and Ishah in Captivity

Thank you so much for your constant prayers,

and your hearts towards those who suffer in captivity! It is an incredible time of becoming one and we all have to learn our lesson so we can be truly useful for our Abba’s purpose and a witness of hope for the nations around us!

Our daughters have vision for our nation and they want to come home to their tribe which is their family. The above little letter is to all of you as a “thank you” from their young hearts!